Gearing up a noob War
 

Hi everyone !

I am new to P1999, and like most of you I used to play EQ back in the days. Thought I started with Kunark.
I am now playing a lvl 10 dwarf warrior and mainly grouping in Crushbone for now. I have two newb questions to the more experienced classic players :
1) Where should I go hunt after Crushbone ?
2) What is the best way to equip my war ? Some nice people gave me a few pieces of bronze armor and the rest is cloth. I have about 30 pp in bank and wondering what I should do, as I understand warriors are very dependant on gear. Should I train blacksmith ? Is it worth it ?

Cheers !
Husk

Try to get a full set of handout bronze and save your plat. The most important gear for a war are weapons that hold aggro. Your first options are obsidian shards (proc at 16 300-400 plat) or gnoll hide lariats (proc at 20, fairly cheap)

Thanks for the advice :)

/ooc Looking for handout bronze armor !! :)

Yeah, I wouldn't advise begging. People tend to not like it when you beg.

Smithing can get you Banded Armor, which is decent enough until you're high enough to get your own Bronze through mob drops. Start by sharpening rusty weapons (Sharpening Stone + Rusty Weapon in a Forge), then move on to making Studs (which you can also use to skill up Tailoring with Medium Quality pelts if you like). EQTraders.com has some decent skillup guides... just be aware that not all recipes are available in Classic (like using your tarnished weapons to make pieces of ore and the dairy spoon skillup path).

If I can offer you one piece of advice, it's this: Once you hit 20 (or is it 25?), use Gnoll Hide Lariats when you're tanking. Yes, you will not hit for much. Yes, people will laugh when you crit for 2 damage. However, very few weapons are available to us that beat out a simple stun proc, and Lariats are cheap to boot. Heck, if I see you online, I'll give you two.

I used at least one Lariat well into 50. It works just fine, even if it looks gimp.

noobs should gear up only for PEACE!


omg guys, did you see what i did there

Question about obsidian shard. It says that you need to level 16 for the obsidian shatter to proc. Is that just for the effect or do you need to be level 16 to equip the sword?

Just for the proc. I don't think there are any level requirements on any classic items as far as simply equipping them goes.

Just for the item to proc, you can equip any piece of gear at lvl 1 but effects are level based.